Sky Blues fans won’t have happy memories of Mr Eltringham, whose ridiculous penalty decision at Oakwell last season put Andy Thorn’s men on course for a bitterly disappointing 2-0 defeat against Barnsley. (In case you’ve forgotten that was the one when Chris Hussey was brazenly shoved in the back only to be pulled up for hands when he fell on the ball).

More encouragingly, Eltringham was in charge for City’s 2-0 win against Portsmouth at the Ricoh in March when Gary McSheffrey and Ollie Norwood notched the goals and there were no major controversies. And he seems to have enjoyed a relatively sedate workload this campaign with just 15 yellow cards and one red from seven matches to date.